Is it possible to align our cars when it has been lowered? My car pulls to the right quite a bit. I dropped it off at a local place for an alignment, and they guy said that it will not be perfect because the caster is off and can't be adjusted on our cars. Is this true or some BS. Also, he is telling me that I need my rear wheels aligned as well, but I thought Maxima's rear wheels can't be aligned?

Basically, what can I expect since my Maxima is lowerd when i get it aligned?

 

hell i'd be happy if i could have a perfect alignment on a non-lowered car. I got that roadforce alignment, which stayed straight for like 2 days, and then it sucked again.

 

I hear ya. But I'm getting a strong pull to the right and outer tire wear after my aliginemt.

 

Take your car down to a REAL alignment place. ie... frame/unibody straigntening/alignment place.

 

caster? or does he mean camber? When I got my Maxspeeds/GR2 combo installed (at CarX), they aligned it there too, and I haven't had any problems. Do you have a camber kit?

 

Jeff - eh, good point.

Shawn - Actually, he meant Caster...camber and toe-in are the other two variables.. Caster is when one tire is litteraly in front of the other tire making them essentially staggered...which, according to him, is un fixable and commong amongst Nissans, Toyotas and Hondas...B.S I bet.

 

Incorrect caster means something is bent.

Camber should remain within specs down to a 2 inch drop. If for some odd reason it's out of spec, get a set of camber bolts to correct it. I'd also check for bend suspension components if your camber is way off.

Toe is irrelevant to ride height.

A 4 wheel thrust angle alignment sets the front wheels in the same tracking line as the rear. Thats how you get the car to track perfectly straight when your steering wheel is centered. There are no adjustment made on the rear of our cars. If the rear alignment is out of spec, something is bent.

 

Have to disagree with you there. The toe setting is set by the two tie rods. These rods are not perfectly parallel to the ground at stock right height. So before the are like \ and after they are like -. So after you lower the car, the rod's effective length gets "longer". This greatly increases the toe-in measurement. If you don't get your alignment done after, it's the toe-in that usually the cause of extreme innter tire wear(not the camber) Although the camber should be addressed if it's more than about 0.8-0.9 neg.